Tech Specs

HPC Midlands is built around a new supercomputer, Hera. This is Hera’s technical specification:

3,008 core supercomputer (48 Teraflops)

11 x chassis (18 blades per chassis)

15TB RAM

120TB Lustre storage

QDR Infiniband interconnect

188 compute node blades

2 x 2.0GHz (8 core) Intel Sandy Bridge CPUs per blade

140 blades with 64GB RAM (4GB/core)

48 blades with 128GB RAM (8GB/core)

Running Bull Linux 6 (RedHat Linux compatible)

We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), through £1m grant funding – grant ref EP/K000063/1 as part of the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills e-Infrastructure initiative.

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